ladyknight

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)